Web hosting is one of most fast growing business in today’s world. Every company wants to have their own website in order to promote their business. Various web-hosting companies offer you to provide web sites for your companies. Therefore, before going for these services, some should have atleast a basic idea of webhosting.
In order to create a web site you need an internet and your designed website will be uploaded on the site through a web server. When you post the multiple pages and graphic images on the allocated space (web site), the person who visits your site can download the pages to his system. The uploading of the sites is done through web hosting. Web hosting are the companies that provide Web space to its clients. Web Space is the amount of space (megabytes or gigabytes) a web hosting companies gives its clients to use for their business purpose.
The client in turn has to pay certain amount of money for the web hosting companies for using the web space. There will be different types of plans and you can select one depending upon your needs.
The hosting too requires a lot of technical skill and knowledge and a good webhosting company will have high disk space with lots of sites. The web server will always be connected to the internet and will function all the time. However, one should not compromise on the security, if there is no proper security then you will end up losing secured company data
Webhosting are divided into five types, they are
• Shared hosting
• Co located hosting
• Dedicated hosting
• Re-seller hosting
• Free hosting
Among all these types, the most common are shared and dedicated hosting. Shared hosting is much cheaper than the dedicated hosting, where a server will have various smaller sites. This is a good option for smaller companies who can have websites at cheaper rates.
